Nancy Bell has enjoyed a thriving soap-opera career and So what's she doing in St. Louis, reworking the words of none other than Shakespeare?
It all started five years ago, whenNow, she's a regular player in the local theater scene.
In this latest episode of our "Cut & Paste鈥� podcast, Bell tells us how she began embellishing The Bard with a St. Louis twist. She also takes us to the beginning of her career 鈥� which required not only fancy footwork but also sturdy shoes.
Here鈥檚 a little more of what Bell revealed about herself:
- Bell once worked as a telemarketer, selling death and dismemberment insurance: 鈥淚t鈥檚 really hard to sell anything with the word 鈥榙ismemberment鈥� in it ... Southern accents, I discovered, were always more effective.鈥�
- Channeling Shakespeare鈥檚 Macbeth: 鈥淚 have a murderer in me. I have violence in me. But I鈥檓 going to embrace those parts of me and show them to you so that we can all understand ourselves better.鈥�
- On her role in "The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?": "Being able to take a pristine white set, every single night, and completely trash it by the end of the play, I just loved every minute of it."
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